With festival season upon us once again, we asked more than 30 artists—including ?uestlove, Jessie Ware, A$AP Ferg, and Speedy Ortiz—to tell us their greatest and/or most ridiculous summer fest stories.

Jillian Mapes talks to the UK pop prodigy about her whirlwind 2014, which saw her transform from a savvy underdog into a bona fide star, and her upcoming record Sucker: "I couldn’t give a fuck if people don’t think I made a 'cool' album."

Presenting our favorite songs of the year: from the chaos of Perfect Pussy to the smoothness of Rhye, from Los Angeles' Haim to New York's Vampire Weekend, from Disclosure's modern house to Daft Punk's disco symphonies, and more.

The London electro-pop upstart talks with Larry Fitzmaurice about crushing on Woody Allen, surviving a zombie apocalypse, picking her nose, losing a dance-off with Robyn, and the similarities between watching Coldplay and E.T.